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moonlune wrote

you can propose any change but need to write it yourself in https://postmill.xyz/

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syster OP wrote

well first I'd like to understand the reason. Maybe there's good reason and I just don't understand.

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emma wrote

There's no real reason. Not a lot of thought was put into how voting works, it's mostly just a gimmick for a site this small anyway.

I'm open to changes as long as they don't fundamentally change Postmill, and don't do stuff like deanonymise existing votes.

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ziq wrote

remember when the old wordpress site showed exactly who upvoted and downvoted each comment and post? that was such a clusterfuck, no one would vote until i figured out how to disable it

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Ashy wrote

I think Emma just said she won't do feature requests anymore

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mofongo wrote

Because that usually how they are calculated in other sites.

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syster OP wrote

Abolish status quo and the other sites then, maybe? :-)

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maolalakoko wrote

I think being able see who voted would be nice. I was originally thinking just to see who engaged with it, but it would also make sock puppets more obvious.

In saying that, I mostly ignore the buttons.

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bloodrose wrote (edited )

I don't think adding names to up/down votes would remove the sock-puppeting. It might actually just increase the amount of sock puppets used. I think there is something to be said for downvoting abusive behavior anonymously. Example: on reddit there is a subreddit for reddit behaving badly but the core rule is to post only if the post has a certain number of upvotes as the downvotes are seen as regulating bad behavior. So, say, someone on raddle was engaging in abusive behavior. You would want to downvote it to show the community does not support the behavior (possibly while waiting for admin action and/or while posting on TOS Breaches). However, if your name is attached to the downvote, you'd worry about being a target. So now, instead of downvoting with your regular account, you'd make another account that you log into just to downvote.

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maolalakoko wrote

I guess I always sort by new or active, so getting downvoted doesn't change anything besides the rating on the side for me.

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halfway_prince wrote

I would definitely be down for this, it's maybe the only way that anonymity can be preserved without the site going to shit because of a few people managing sock puppets.

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